School Travel Assistant

2 weeks ago


Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom Southampton City Council Full time

Organisation

  • Southampton City Council
    Job Category
  • Transport/Logistics
    Location
  • Civic Centre, Southampton, SO14 7LY
    Service Area
  • Transport & Planning
    Contract Type
  • Permanent
    Full Time / Part Time
  • Part time
    FTE Salary Min
- £26,609
FTE Salary Max
- £28,770
Closing Date

  • 24/04/2024
    Job Reference

Job DescriptionYou will be working as part of a small, busy team that provides specialist transport services for vulnerable children and adults to and from school, college, respite, contact and other community bases.

You will undertake all administrative duties for the school travel planning, transport operator procurement, staff recruitment and training, and health and safety management for the effective delivery of safe, suitable and sustainable school travel arrangements.


You will update the school travel database and liaise with internal/external stakeholders such as Children's Services, Health and Safety, Procurement, schools, colleges, parents/carers, and a range of other agencies.

You will play a key administrative role in supporting activities for the operational provision for the School Travel Service.

For this interesting role you will need to have:

  • Organisational skills with attention to detail and high levels of concentration to prioritize workload and to provide a high level of service.
  • Interpersonal and communication skills to develop and maintain effective working relationships with team members, customers, schools and other agencies in a courteous and helpful way and deal with difficult customers.
  • Problem solving and negotiation skills to overcome a variety of difficult situations in a practical and timely manner.
  • Planning skills to ensure appropriate arrangements are in place for the short and medium term.
  • Energy, enthusiasm and be self motivated
  • IT skills experience of using IT systems e.g. Microsoft Office Suite and databases.
  • Participate in an office cover rota which involves working some early starts and some late finishes.
  • Working pattern: 18.50 hours per week, Wednesday half day approximately , Thursday and Friday 7.4 hours per day.

Contact details for informal discussion:

Recruitment contact details:

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Additional information:

  • Please note the salary quoted is based on full time hours (37 hours per week)
  • The working hours for this role are 18.5 hours per week (3 days per week, Wednesday to Friday)
  • This is a permanent, job share position.
  • Please note that appointments are usually made at the bottom of the salary scale.

How to apply:

Southampton City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults.

It is committed to delivering services to ensure they are happy, safe and have opportunities to reach their goals as responsible members of our community.

We believe it is always unacceptable for a child, young person or adult to experience abuse of any kind, and recognise our responsibility to safeguard and promote their welfare.

We are committed to following safe practices to ensure this and expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

This commitment is reflected in all our recruitment and selection practices.


As a Corporate Parent we are actively aiming to support all our children in care (looked after children) and care leavers.

Any applicants who are children in care or care leavers, who meet the essential criteria for the post applied for, will be guaranteed an interview.

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